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At NVIDIA's own list prices, a gigabyte of VRAM costs the same $62 on both cards. So the real question is which models you want. We ran 13 popular ones through our VRAM math, then priced renting each card by the hour.
Aliteq Team · 3d ago · 11 min
$1,679.99 from Amazon today, against a $999 launch price and a $1,249.99 tracked low. The price record, what the extra $500 over a 5070 Ti buys on Nvidia's own spec sheet, and the numbers to buy at.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 7 min
AI demand spiked consumer GPU prices into a mid-2026 peak — and they're cooling off it now, unevenly. The current numbers vs MSRP, why the RTX 5090 won't budge, and what's actually worth buying.
Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 7 min
The GPU alone costs $805 right now. the whole prebuilt PC is $1,600. let's actually do the math on whether that's a deal.
Aliteq Team · Aug 26 · 7 min
Viral clearance-cage GPU finds are real — but chasing them on purpose is a bad plan, and the GDDR7 shortage explains why everyone's suddenly hunting.
Aliteq Team · Aug 25 · 6 min
somewhere between the memory shortage and the markup, Nvidia's flagship broke pricing so badly that skipping the DIY build is the actual smart move
Aliteq Team · Aug 22 · 7 min
The plain, non-XT Radeon RX 9070 just hit its lowest price yet on Amazon, and the math against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 honestly isn't close.
Aliteq Team · Aug 19 · 6 min
The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB launched $120 under the RTX 5070 to win on value. This week, several retailers have that flipped completely.
Aliteq Team · Aug 19 · 7 min
The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is $805 now. The RX 9060 XT 16GB is still under $430. Here's whether Nvidia's edge is still worth the gap.
Aliteq Team · Aug 18 · 6 min
the 16GB version is up 88% since launch. the 8GB version barely moved. here's the real math if you're buying for local AI, not just gaming.
Aliteq Team · Aug 16 · 7 min
Nvidia's mid-range GPU is up 36% in two months — here's whether it still makes sense for running models at home, or if $900 changes the answer entirely.
Aliteq Team · Aug 15 · 6 min
Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.
Aliteq Team · Aug 14 · 8 min
The RTX PRO 6000 nearly doubled in eight months. Here's what your money actually buys against every real alternative for running big models at home.
Aliteq Team · Aug 14 · 8 min
Nvidia's trading at its cheapest valuation in a decade. Meanwhile market reports said the price of renting a GPU by the hour nearly doubled this year. What the numbers show, including our own rental-price data.
Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 7 min
MSI just told investors gaming hardware prices are rising 15 to 30% this year, and the actual culprit is a DRAM shortage AI datacenters are causing, not GPU chips themselves.
Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 6 min
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Aliteq Team · Aug 11 · 6 min
While DRAM shortages push RTX 5070 prices up 36% and RTX 5060 up 27% at the median, AMD's 12GB Navi 48 card just fell to its lowest price ever. Here's whether that math still makes sense.
Aliteq Team · Aug 10 · 7 min
QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.
Aliteq Team · Aug 7 · 6 min
AMD finalized this price increase weeks ago and sat on it, waiting to see if Nvidia would take the backlash first. Now that Nvidia's moved, so has AMD.
Aliteq Team · Aug 6 · 6 min
AMD, Nvidia, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all raised prices in 2026. it's the same memory shortage breaking every platform.
Aliteq Team · Aug 5 · 7 min
GDDR7 modules and TSMC wafer costs just pushed every RTX 50 card higher this week — but the ugliest number isn't the one everyone's quoting.
Aliteq Team · Aug 4 · 6 min
South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.
Aliteq Team · Aug 4 · 8 min
A third price hike in one year is reportedly coming for the RTX 50 series — and if you're buying VRAM for local AI, not frame rates, the calculation isn't the same as 'wait for a sale.'
Aliteq Team · Aug 4 · 7 min
NVIDIA never changed the list price. The shelf did. What the RTX 5070 Ti actually costs in October 2026, why, and when an RTX 5080 is a worse buy at the same 16GB.
Aliteq Team · Aug 3 · 6 min
the 5080 Super, 5070 Ti Super and 5070 Super are reportedly built, boxed, and sitting at board partners — Nvidia just won't let anyone sell them yet.
Aliteq Team · Aug 2 · 6 min
The $279 RX 9050 looks like a normal budget GPU launch, until you notice AMD quietly brought back a 64-bit, 4GB memory config nobody's shipped since 2022.
Aliteq Team · Aug 1 · 6 min
A $299 budget GPU got $75 pricier in 72 hours flat. Here's the actual chain of events, and the honest call on buying now versus waiting.
Aliteq Team · Aug 1 · 7 min
That is more than the RTX 5090's $1,999 launch price. We checked the launch figure, today's shelf prices, and what a plain RTX 5080 costs instead.
Aliteq Team · Jul 31 · 6 min
MSI, PNY and Colorful raised RTX 50-series distributor prices by up to 59% over MSRP. The cause isn't greed — it's the same memory shortage that's been quietly inflating everything with a chip in it. Here's whether to buy now.
Aliteq Team · Jul 28 · 8 min